We have set aside an additional day to go touring from a Finsteraarhornhütte base. If the weather has not been particularly kind to us we may choose to use this day to pick up another descent we may have missed along the way. In other words, there are many options, but an extra day is always a help.

Some of the options from this hut are a trip up to the Hugisattel, the 13,400 foot notch just north of the final rock pyramid of the Finsteraarhorn. This a fairly steep tour, but a great descent. We'll need good snow and avalanche conditions for this one. Another option is to tour up-glacier to the Hinter Fiescherhorn, another of the 4000 meter summits of the Berner. We would get great views down to the north, all the way out to Grindelwald, almost 10,000 feet lower. A third option is the "Chamonixspitze" as the guides affectionately call it, a summit west of the Agassizhorn and a fantastic viewpoint.

All of these tours are shown on the map to the right.